In the late 1700s Italian master printer Giambattista Bodoni created the typeface that bears his name and has endured for over two centuries.

Berthold Bodoni Antiqua was first introduced in 1930. H. Berthold then expanded the family, first in the 1970s to include condensed versions which were gaining popularity at that time, and again in the mid-1980s with the expert series.

A popular, versatile family, Berthold Bodoni Antiqua is the corporate typeface of IBM.